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THE CORRECTIONS

Jonathan Franzen

After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson’s disease, and their…

DRY

Augusten Burroughs

You may not know it, but you’ve met Augusten Burroughs. You’ve seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twenty-something guy, nice suit, works in…

THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE PROFESSOR

Yoko Ogawa

In The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa tells an intimate story about family, the nature of memory, and the poetry of mathematics. It is also, in a sense, a…

RUNNING WITH SISSORS

Augusten Burroughs

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who…

DREAM HOUSE

Valerie Laken

Dream House is a riveting debut novel that tells the story of a domestic drama that will irrevocably affect the lives of two families. One terrible night. One outraged act….

THE SEANCE

John Harwood

Wraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside, has a sinister reputation. Once, a family disappeared there. And now Constance Langton has inherited this dark place as well as…